Posts tagged
‘Black Dogs’

Past Praying For – Something Sinister in an Irish Field Sinister encounters with bizarre and fiery animals in an Irish field.

A Ghost of Evil Odour A ghost of evil odour is met by unfortunate travelers on the Lucan Road.

Creature Feature: Something Between a Dog and a Calf Today’s creature is the Black Dog. Called by a variety of names: Black Shuck, the Barghest, Trash, or Padfoot, the names shift with the location, reflecting the creature’s Trickster-like ability to assume first one animal form, then another, usually something canine or calf-like. Let us see what was haunting a lane near New Milford in Pembrokeshire in the years 1890-92.

While we know Black Dogs as harbingers of Death, earthly black dogs were also considered to be a source of a remedy for tuberculosis. Here is an account of that macabre and dubious remedy.

The Giant Phantom Dog of Tanao Atoll: A story from a tiny Pacific atoll of a giant ghost-dog believed to be the spirit of a dead man.

A stone tower prone to fiery explosions, a ghastly Black Dog apparition, spook lights, ghosts, and mystic people–is the area of the South Mountain Maryland Washington Monument a “window” or “portal” area, full of high strangeness?

Black Dogs and Dynamite: South Mountain’s Washington Monument A stone tower prone to fiery explosions, a ghastly Black Dog apparition, spook lights, ghosts, and mystic people–is the area of the South Mountain Maryland Washington Monument a “window” or “portal” area, full of high strangeness?